"Then we will see afterwards what direction Samir wants to take with his career."

Obviously there is going to be a bit of speculation until the Frenchman does put pen to paper on a deal with us. From what I understand of the situation, Nasri is happy in London. He loves Arsenal and is keen to continue working with Arsene Wenger.

So hopefully it is only a matter of time before the club announces the deal.

There also appears to be interest from Spain in another of our players.

According to the Daily Mirror, Valencia have moved into the race to take Carlos Vela on loan for the remainder of the season and hope to hijack any deal Bolton hope to make for the forward with Arsenal.

I'm not sure that Arsene Wenger would really want Vela going to Spain, so I'm pretty sure this one will be knocked on the head pretty quickly.

The idea of sending the Mexican out on loan is to get Premier League experience and the chance to do that every week from now until the end of the season.

Quite how Vela would learn more about fighting for a place in a English Premier League team in Spain is unclear to me.

We know there is clear interest in the player from Bolton and their manager Owen Coyle has been in touch with Wenger about a possible deal to take him to the north-west.